Wordzy vs Penanagrams
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Wordzy
A word puzzle game where players guess a 5-letter word using letter clues and color-coded feedback. Solve puzzles quickly to earn higher scores and expand vocabulary and spelling skills.
- 5-letter word guessing
- Color-coded letter clues
- Multiple game modes (Quick-Solve, Marathon, Endurance, Free)
- Over 6,600 words in dictionary
- 16 achievements to unlock
- Game Center leaderboards
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All the way from 2010, WORDZY is back by popular demand! Free for a limited time! Think guessing 5 letter words is easy? Guess again! WORDZY is a puzzle game in which the player solves a 5-letter word with letter clues. The first letter of a mystery word is provided, and then word guesses are color coded to help the player solve the puzzle. Guess as many times as needed, the faster the word is solved, the higher the point values. Bonus letters give a little help or can boost total scores. Great fun for the whole family to expand vocabulary and spelling skills! Features: - The WORDZY dictionary includes over 6,600 words - 16 achievements to unlock - Game Center leaderboards - Puzzling fun for everyone - Four game modes QUICK-Solve as many puzzles as you can in 3 minutes. MARATHON - Solve as many puzzles as you can in 10 minutes. ENDURANCE - Solve as many puzzles as you can with a 1 minute per word time clock. Once the clock gets to 0 the game is over. FREE - No time limit. Just have fun. For more information on this app and other products, please visit www.suppsoft.com. Your comments and suggestions are always welcome.
Penanagrams
A daily word puzzle game where you find near-anagrams of a five-letter starting word. Each day presents a new challenge to discover words by changing one letter and rearranging the remaining ones. Aim for three stars by finding a specific number of valid penanagrams.
- Daily five-letter starting word
- Find near-anagrams (penanagrams)
- Change exactly one letter
- Rearrange remaining letters
- Star system for progress
- Three-star daily goal
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Penanagrams is a free daily anagram-style word puzzle. Each day there is a new five-letter starting word. Find as many penanagrams (near-anagrams) as you can: (a) change exactly one letter in the starting word, then (b) use this new letter and the remaining four letters of the starting word in any order to form a new word. For example START -> RANTS or START -> RATES. For RANTS, a T is changed to an N. Changing a T to any other letter and rearranging in the same way, e.g. T -> F to produce RAFTS, does not count as a new penanagram. To show this, the changed letter shows up as a blank green square in your list of penanagrams. You get a star when you have found 1/4, 2/4, and 3/4 of the possible penangrams. Try for three stars every day!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Penanagrams at every 4 days against Wordzy's every 69 months. Wordzy's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.4). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Wordzy against 4.9 for Penanagrams. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 9 respectively.
Wordzy ships an update every 69 months, Penanagrams every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Wordzy | Penanagrams |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better | 4.9 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 69 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | John Sepulveres | Noah Daniel Stein |
Customer experience
Wordzy
Penanagrams
In-app purchases
Wordzy
No in-app purchases
Penanagrams
No in-app purchases









